"I have prepared my sister's tongue,
scrubbed and skinned it,
trimmed the roots, small bones, and gristle."
(The Joy of Cooking)
This is sick. Revolting, disgusting, and wierd. One can infer from the diction that this narator does not think very highly of her sister and brother. "...-it will probably grow back." tells me that the speaker's sister talks and talks and talks. "It (her brother's heart) resembles muscle
more than organ meat." implies that her brother's heart serves only the function of keeping him alive, but it does not allow him to live. Also, it only serves two people as opposed to six, so it can be infered that his heart is tiny. Will the narrator really kill her brother and chop off her sister's tongue? I doubt it. I think this is merely a venting of frustration.
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